Tim Maia spent several formative years in the United States in the early 1960s and returned to Rio de Janeiro determined to graft American soul and funk onto Brazilian pop, becoming the central figure of the 1970s música soul scene later dubbed 'Black Rio.' His booming voice and genre-blending arrangements, heard across his self-titled 1970 debut LP, made him one of Brazilian music's most singular vocalists. The soul-and-funk dance culture he helped popularize in Rio's Black communities is widely cited as part of the cultural backdrop funk carioca later emerged from.

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